A collaboration by Indigenous scholars and non-Indigenous allies, this book champions the importance of Indigenous Knowledges for social work. It argues colonial structures can only be dismantled through reliance on Indigenous knowledges and practices.
This book tackles the paradox of observing hidden behaviours, such as prohibited drug use. Under what conditions are these secrets revealed to an inquirer? It discusses methods to ensure valid data, serving as a guide for researchers and a source of support for decision-makers.
Fan Culture
Explore the shifting dynamics between fans, scholars, and creators. This accessible collection tackles the core ethical questions of fan studies through popular fandoms like Doctor Who, Star Wars, and Twilight.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
Pop Culture Matters
We immerse ourselves daily in expressions of popular culture but rarely pay critical attention to them. The essays in this collection redress this situation and critically examine various offerings in film, television, social media, music, literature, sports, and related areas.
Current Myanmar Studies
This book contains articles concerned with the major issues facing development in Myanmar. Topics explored include Muslims in Arakan (Rohingya), economic perspectives, the challenges facing Aung San Suu Kyi, and an ethnographic note on textile production in Shan State.
Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption
Muslim consumers are not passive victims of globalization. They adapt global brands, reshaping their culture. This volume uses consumption as a prism to understand the enormous transformations that Muslim societies have undergone in the past few decades.
The Welfare System and the Social Lifeworld
Is social welfare a mechanism for promoting altruism, or a self-reproducing system of law and politics? This book questions if our understanding can keep pace with the changing economic and political conditions of a neo-liberal global world.
Fighting Corruption in African Contexts
Leading African scholars examine how to mobilise citizens towards accountability and transparency. This book advocates that fighting corruption is everyone’s business, in order to strengthen Africa’s integrity, equity, and sustainable development.
This book reconsiders teaching and learning in media studies, arguing that many academics have been slow to respond to transformations in digital media. It critically reassesses key debates in the field and asks: is media studies still relevant in its current form?
Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History
Critical essays by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the US reexamine Mexican American cultural history from a 21st-century global perspective. The jargon-free essays explore biography, nationhood, and globalism, from Imperial Spain to modern US influence in Latin America.
Stress in Plants
This book provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop productivity for a growing population. It links plant activity to tolerance and adaptation, offering strategies to counter the impact of environmental stress, a threat magnified by climate change.
This book reveals how masked activists in Saudi Arabia use social media to challenge a patriarchal society. It connects their hidden online identities to influential newspaper columns, investigating the true extent and consequences of a Saudi woman’s freedom of expression.
This book explores non-governmental organisations empowering women in Saudi Arabia. Given the unique cultural context, this empowerment follows unconventional paths, revealing the tactics and negotiation processes used by these organizations and by women in their daily lives.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Punctually
This book defines sustainable development, tracing the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It maps the Millennium Development Goals to the new SDGs, classifying and assessing them. Essential for students, policy-makers, and anyone interested in our world.
Female Subjectivity in African-American Women’s Poetry
This book constructs Black female subjectivity through the poetry of African-American women. It delves into issues like racism, motherhood, and the struggle for identity, illuminating Black female aesthetics, the liberation of self, and the politics of survival.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
Dangerous Men
This analysis of dangerous offender legislation in Canada develops a political economy of dangerousness. Using case studies and interviews, it argues that the label of “high-risk convict” obscures the social and economic conditions that many marginalized people experience.
This manual is a framework for starting a new government. It guides non-technical readers in building a successful representative democracy that can be adapted to any culture. This researched, equitable approach is for all humankind—on Earth, underground, underwater, or in space.
Beneath the long history of Africa-India relations lies a troubling reality of racism. This collection of studies explores prejudice against Blackness in India through the lived experiences of sub-Saharan Africans and Siddhis (Afro-Indians).